2.0-//54.241.16.158//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.26.9//GREGORIANPUBLISHhttps://sfartenthusiast.comAmerica/Los_AngelesAmerica/Los_AngelesAmerica/Los_Angeles2019-11-03T02:00:002020-11-01T02:00:00PST-07:00-08:002019-03-10T02:00:002020-03-08T02:00:002021-03-14T02:00:00PDT-08:00-07:00ai1ec-28095@sfartenthusiast.com2019-09-15T10:26:49ZR/SF Projects: BYOB (Bring Your Own Beemer)<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-28097" src="https://sfartenthusiast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/RSF-Projects.png" alt="RSF Projects" width="484" height="626" srcset="https://sfartenthusiast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/RSF-Projects.png 742w, https://sfartenthusiast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/RSF-Projects-232x300.png 232w" sizes="(max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px" />R/SF projects & BAUHAUS SF have partnered to invite you to a night of new media work and projectionist delight at R/SF’s downtown storefront 1050 Larkin St.</p>
<p>This pop-up, one night, group exhibition will feature the work of Bay area artists as part of the greater BYOB mission:</p>
<p>BYOB is a series of one-night-exhibitions curated by different people around the world. The idea is simple: find a place, invite many artists, ask them to bring their projectors.<br />
BYOB is a way of making a huge show with zero budget. It is also an exploration of the medium of projection. The first edition of BYOB was initiated by Anne de Vries & Rafaël Rozendaal in Berlin and has been an ongoing series in a number of spaces around the world since 2010. Learn more at http:// www.byobworldwide.com/</p>
<p>This event is organized by Lauren Franklin, Alex Sanchez, Marcela Pardo Ariza and R/SF projects.</p>
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<p><strong>Opening Reception, March 17th, 2017, 6-10pm</strong></p>
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<p>On the gallery’s ground floor, visitors encounter the eponymously named The Valley (2017), whose protagonist recounts wistful memories that he nevertheless distrusts, seeking an eternal sunshine-esque catharsis of forgetting. The scene pans across futuristic mountainous ridges and a backdrop of alabaster luminescence before revealing the silver and gold biomorphic shapes …which haunt our narrator. A character tormented by a purgatory of self-pity, he attempts to distract himself with Facebook. The work is accompanied by a soundtrack of atmospheric sound, not entirely unmistakable from the realms of sci-fi and video games. Upstairs, Stranded (2016) finds its lovelorn protagonist bobbing across various states of confusion, loneliness, and ambivalence. “I am not sure when I fucked up,” he monotonously divulges. In a soliloquy-cum-confessional aside, he attempts to deconstruct a past relationship gone wrong, admitting “but it sure feels good to pretend.” Frustrated by the surface level interactions encountered on instagram, he copes with a dissolution of intimacy, a closeness made uncannily palpable through the superimposition of figures. The work is grounded in current referents (California, Call of Duty, click farms) and underscores the exceptionally contemporary numbness that can only ensue from an endless stream of news feeds. In a world where even the terrain is transitory and fluid, our character eventually achieves what The Valley’s hero cannot, and successfully forgets the appearance of his former love – losing his own in the process. Finally, interspersed throughout the gallery are vertically oriented structural ‘studies’—abstract landscapes of morphing forms and textural vignettes which act as visual meditation upon the artist’s process, seemingly ripe for cell phone viewing.</p>
<p>While García-Miñaúr’s characters exhibit discernable freckles and stubble, their imperfectly dubbed and almost soporific voiceovers avoid human replication—they are eerily corporeal yet ultimately digital, this isn’t West World and our leading figures aren’t trying to fool us through CGI. Landscapes, too, hover between the recognizable and the surreal—they are fictional but decidedly not dreams, harnessing the true power of virtuality. While light appears to reflect in a mostly earthly manner and some semblance of gravity exists, certain objects bridge on optical illusion, surfaces elude identification, and the overarching color palette deviates to the other-worldly. Seemingly ‘shot’ from the hovering perspective of a drone, we spectators are implicated as surveillants, our viewership mediated by the simulation of technology. García-Miñaúr contrasts the emotive with the banal, for while evocative, the narration lacks idiosyncrasy, and a certain deadpan emptiness pervades each scene.</p>
<p>García-Miñaúr delves into notions of the icon, the memorial, collective trauma, and collective amnesia; the human predilection to preserve memory and yet the human capacity to forget. As an almost universal 21st century narrative spins alter egos we can all relate to, an inevitable empathy is invoked that capitalizes upon the conventions of cinema. Characters crippled by overactive inner monologue hinge on delusional or paranoic, an all too real state of being amongst echo chambers and festering feedback loops. Above all, perhaps what we witness is a caricature of capitalist schizophrenia itself, an avatar of our cyborgian ways of being.</p>
<p>García-Miñaúr lifts the veil to reveal a barometric sign of the times, where consciousness is predicated upon the intermingling of an I/We and identity formation is inextricably linked to a looking glass self. (After all, if a tweet falls in a forest, does it make a sound?) Gesturing toward the ways we perceive surroundings, process interactions, and outwardly communicate, we are ultimately prompted to question the relationships in our own lives, technological and otherwise.</p>
<p>Simón García-Miñaúr (b. Bilbao, Spain) is a Basque filmmaker currently based in San Francisco. His new media work has been screened internationally at film festivals including Seminci (Valladolid, Spain); Bideodromo (Bilbao, Spain); and the Headline International Film Festival (Vancouver, Canada). In the Bay Area García-Miñaúr has exhibited at Aggregate Space (Oakland, CA); Root Division, Noroof Gallery, and Embark Gallery (San Francisco, CA), as well as international venues such as Beers London (United Kingdom). García-Miñaúr received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and his BFA from the Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya in Barcelona. The Valley is his premier solo exhibition with the gallery.</p>
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<p>R/SF invites you into a hidden underground of performance art, dance, installation, and sound—where spontaneous encounters and interactive landscapes unfold. Immerse yourself in a contemporary masquerade where art objects contain clues and invite sensorial play.</p>
<p>Put on a mask, dance with a stranger, and step into a role of bold self-experimentation. Abandon your cell phone and the world of Tinder to seek something experiential and sublime—Theatricalize your Saturday night.</p>
<p>Witness R/SF transform into MASQ—a gallery in drag for the night. We invite audience members to take part in this ephemeral fantasy: a living production featu…ring mystical non-linear narratives and a rotating cast that invites repeat exploration. At the nexus of improvisational movement, theatre, and installation art, MASQ immerses the viewer in the possibility of art as it unfolds in real time.</p>
<p>SOUND/PERFORMANCE ACTS:<br />
Yvette Dibos + Caitlin Petersen (MC)<br />
Juancy Matos<br />
Peter Kalisch</p>
<p>IMMERSIVE PERFORMANCE FEATURES:<br />
Marisa Khachadoorian<br />
Madison Page<br />
Claire Rabkin<br />
Silk Worm<br />
Thomas Doherty</p>
<p>ART PIECES FEATURED IN THE SET:<br />
Jordan Rose Jurich-Weston<br />
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<div class="addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content addtoany_content_bottom"><div class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_20 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="https://sfartenthusiast.com/2017/09/photo-feature-jessica-hess-less-is-more-at-hashimoto-contemporary/" data-a2a-title="Photo Feature: Jessica Hess “Less Is More” at Hashimoto Contemporary"><a class="a2a_button_facebook" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/facebook?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fsfartenthusiast.com%2F2017%2F09%2Fphoto-feature-jessica-hess-less-is-more-at-hashimoto-contemporary%2F&linkname=Photo%20Feature%3A%20Jessica%20Hess%20%E2%80%9CLess%20Is%20More%E2%80%9D%20at%20Hashimoto%20Contemporary" title="Facebook" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_button_twitter" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/twitter?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fsfartenthusiast.com%2F2017%2F09%2Fphoto-feature-jessica-hess-less-is-more-at-hashimoto-contemporary%2F&linkname=Photo%20Feature%3A%20Jessica%20Hess%20%E2%80%9CLess%20Is%20More%E2%80%9D%20at%20Hashimoto%20Contemporary" title="Twitter" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_button_tumblr" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/tumblr?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fsfartenthusiast.com%2F2017%2F09%2Fphoto-feature-jessica-hess-less-is-more-at-hashimoto-contemporary%2F&linkname=Photo%20Feature%3A%20Jessica%20Hess%20%E2%80%9CLess%20Is%20More%E2%80%9D%20at%20Hashimoto%20Contemporary" title="Tumblr" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_button_email" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/email?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fsfartenthusiast.com%2F2017%2F09%2Fphoto-feature-jessica-hess-less-is-more-at-hashimoto-contemporary%2F&linkname=Photo%20Feature%3A%20Jessica%20Hess%20%E2%80%9CLess%20Is%20More%E2%80%9D%20at%20Hashimoto%20Contemporary" title="Email" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_dd addtoany_no_icon addtoany_share_save addtoany_share" href="https://www.addtoany.com/share">Share</a></div></div>America/Los_Angeles2017-04-22T19:00:00America/Los_Angeles2017-04-22T23:30:00en-USGallery Events+37.787767-122.418212R/SF Projects @ 1050 Larkin St, San Francisco, CA 94109, USA0https://sfartenthusiast.com/event/rsf-projects-masq/freethumbnail;https://sfartenthusiast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/RSF-Projects-1024x512.jpg;734;367,medium;https://sfartenthusiast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/RSF-Projects-1024x512.jpg;734;367,large;https://sfartenthusiast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/RSF-Projects-1024x512.jpg;734;367,full;https://sfartenthusiast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/RSF-Projects-1024x512.jpg;734;367en-US#r/sfProjectsai1ec-29803@sfartenthusiast.com2019-09-15T10:26:49ZR/SF Projects: ‘Currents’<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-29808" src="https://sfartenthusiast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/20108653_2065397230354401_4543695476751150924_n.jpg" alt="" width="690" height="460" srcset="https://sfartenthusiast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/20108653_2065397230354401_4543695476751150924_n.jpg 864w, https://sfartenthusiast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/20108653_2065397230354401_4543695476751150924_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https://sfartenthusiast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/20108653_2065397230354401_4543695476751150924_n-768x512.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px" /></p>
<p><strong>Currents</strong><br />
<strong>Paula Morales</strong><br />
<strong>28 July – 20 August</strong></p>
<p><strong>Opening Reception 28 July, 7-10PM</strong><br />
<strong>Press Preview 25-28 July, by appointment</strong><br />
R/SF projects is pleased to present “Currents,” a solo exhibition of new media and installation by Guatemala-born, San Francisco-based artist Paula Morales.</p>
<p>As its moniker suggests, “Currents” investigates the nexus of nature and technology, on both the macro- and micro- levels. Morales links the flow of electricity to wind and water patterns, the atomic building block to that of the pixel, and animal migration to expatriation, examining myriad social phenomena through digital inquiry. While industrial innovation and the natural environment are often pitted against each other as the synthetic versus the organic, Morales fuses biology and technology to spur transdisciplinary dialogue, as well as a holistic take on futurology. Where artmaking has habitually depicted man’s perpetual pursuit to triumph over nature, Morales parallels both forces as commensurate, mobilizing new media as the platform for analysis and exchange.</p>
<p>Punctuating the gallery’s architectural elements, Morales’ inordinately site-specific terrain invites viewers to traverse a sensorial microcosm as transients within disoriented space. Immediately upon entering, “The Cloud” (2017) hovers above as an amorphous mass cloaked in frenetic projections, recalling the omnipresence of networks and servers as much as our ultimate subservience to weather. In a series of wall-mounted lenticular prints, shapeshifting imagery of dinosaurs, fish, and waterfalls mimics the animation of Morales’ new media practice at large, reverting digital technique to analog space. Here, each work embodies the ephemeral qualities of GIF culture within semi-static art objects, referencing topics as grandiose as extinction and evolution.</p>
<p>Upstairs, “Systemic Dualism” (2017) vacillates between an array of holographically simulated tableaux, from an image of a sprinting cheetah to a tornado overlaid with cockroaches, recalling migration as innate and imperative and gesturing toward borders, refugees, and nationalism. The work reappropriates the “pepper’s ghost” optical illusion used in 19th century haunted houses and carnivals as much as it gestures toward the immeasurable potential of future technologies. And finally, in “Reciprocity” (2017), a CRT-enabled feedback loop incorporates the viewer’s presence amidst a gridded 3D cube, emulating geopositioning techniques to endlessly map the body in space, while emblematic of Modernism’s mark-making-as-representation. As the device filters the viewer’s appearance to replicate the mediation of social media platforms, the work comes to embody an installation in the true sense of the term, requiring participation for activation. Perhaps upon seeing ourselves reflected upon the landscape we become equipped to project man’s long-term impact on our surroundings, made self-aware, however momentarily.</p>
<p>Throughout the exhibition Morales knowingly toys with speed, from the immediacy we expect in a narrative arc to our limited comprehension of time. Drawn-out and unhurried, each work blurs the line between vignette and video, producing painterly landscapes that bespeak the notion of ‘slow time’. While Morales’ overly saturated color palette has characteristically alluded to Guatemalan markets and garb, within “Currents,” each color begins to speak to larger concepts of light, vibration, and human perception. As Morales anthropologically mines migration as fodder for visual exploration, she deftly instigates new dialogues around our relationship to the planet. Her practice parallels techniques of error aesthetic, glitch, and synthesis to phenomena of the natural world, where global warming and geoengineering may be interpreted through data degradation and mutation, rooted in human intervention.<br />
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About R/SF projects:</p>
<p>R/SF projects is a curatorial project space for cutting-edge contemporary work and experimental performance. The gallery endeavors to champion true risk-taking among today’s cultural agitators, and to redefine the way viewers interact with contemporary art. In tandem with its robust schedule of solo and group shows, R/SF hosts seasonal SF Young Collectors Club salons, outdoor exhibitions under its EN PLEIN AIR initiative, and a diverse range of pop-ups featuring guest curators and outside collaborators, fixtures that consistently offer new levels of critical engagement with the works on view.</p>
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For the last night of Paula Morales’ solo show “Currents,” R/SF projects invites you to an über experiential sound playground, featuring sounds by Pedro Alejandro Verdin. Come dance within the glow of Morales’ installations and projections while bidding to get your fave songs played.</p>
<p>This event is 90’s themed so dress in your most festive throwback outfits and bring some song requests to match.</p>
<p>$5+ cover – the night is a fundraiser towards R/SF projects’ future new media programming.</p>
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<p>Currents<br />
Paula Morales<br />
28 July – 19 August…<br />
Open Fri/Sat 8-10:30pm & by night time appointment</p>
<p>R/SF projects is pleased to present “Currents,” a solo exhibition of new media and installation by Guatemala-born, San Francisco-based artist Paula Morales.</p>
<p>As its moniker suggests, “Currents” investigates the nexus of nature and technology, on both the macro- and micro- levels. Morales links the flow of electricity to wind and water patterns, the atomic building block to that of the pixel, and animal migration to expatriation, examining myriad social phenomena through digital inquiry. While industrial innovation and the natural environment are often pitted against each other as the synthetic versus the organic, Morales fuses biology and technology to spur transdisciplinary dialogue, as well as a holistic take on futurology. Where artmaking has habitually depicted man’s perpetual pursuit to triumph over nature, Morales parallels both forces as commensurate, mobilizing new media as the platform for analysis and exchange.</p>
<p>Punctuating the gallery’s architectural elements, Morales’ inordinately site-specific terrain invites viewers to traverse a sensorial microcosm as transients within disoriented space. Immediately upon entering, “The Cloud” (2017) hovers above as an amorphous mass cloaked in frenetic projections, recalling the omnipresence of networks and servers as much as our ultimate subservience to weather. In a series of wall-mounted lenticular prints, shapeshifting imagery of dinosaurs, fish, and waterfalls mimics the animation of Morales’ new media practice at large, reverting digital technique to analog space. Here, each work embodies the ephemeral qualities of GIF culture within semi-static art objects, referencing topics as grandiose as extinction and evolution.</p>
<p>Upstairs, “Systemic Dualism” (2017) vacillates between an array of holographically simulated tableaux, from an image of a sprinting cheetah to a tornado overlaid with cockroaches, recalling migration as innate and imperative and gesturing toward borders, refugees, and nationalism. The work reappropriates the “pepper’s ghost” optical illusion used in 19th century haunted houses and carnivals as much as it gestures toward the immeasurable potential of future technologies. And finally, in “Reciprocity” (2017), a CRT-enabled feedback loop incorporates the viewer’s presence amidst a gridded 3D cube, emulating geopositioning techniques to endlessly map the body in space, while emblematic of Modernism’s mark-making-as-representat ion. As the device filters the viewer’s appearance to replicate the mediation of social media platforms, the work comes to embody an installation in the true sense of the term, requiring participation for activation. Perhaps upon seeing ourselves reflected upon the landscape we become equipped to project man’s long-term impact on our surroundings, made self-aware, however momentarily.</p>
<p>Throughout the exhibition Morales knowingly toys with speed, from the immediacy we expect in a narrative arc to our limited comprehension of time. Drawn-out and unhurried, each work blurs the line between vignette and video, producing painterly landscapes that bespeak the notion of ‘slow time’. While Morales’ overly saturated color palette has characteristically alluded to Guatemalan markets and garb, within “Currents,” each color begins to speak to larger concepts of light, vibration, and human perception. As Morales anthropologically mines migration as fodder for visual exploration, she deftly instigates new dialogues around our relationship to the planet. Her practice parallels techniques of error aesthetic, glitch, and synthesis to phenomena of the natural world, where global warming and geoengineering may be interpreted through data degradation and mutation, rooted in human intervention.</p>
<p>###</p>
<p>About R/SF projects:</p>
<p>R/SF projects is a curatorial project space for cutting-edge contemporary work and experimental performance. The gallery endeavors to champion true risk-taking among today’s cultural agitators, and to redefine the way viewers interact with contemporary art. In tandem with its robust schedule of solo and group shows, R/SF hosts seasonal SF Young Collectors Club salons, outdoor exhibitions under its EN PLEIN AIR initiative, and a diverse range of pop-ups featuring guest curators and outside collaborators, fixtures that consistently offer new levels of critical engagement with the works on view.</p>
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<p><strong>R/SF projects</strong><br />
<strong>1050 Larkin Street, San Francisco</strong></p>
<p>Press Release:<br />
R/SF projects is pleased to present “Slow Clap,” a solo exhibition of new photography by Colombia-born, San Francisco-based artist Marcela Pardo Ariza. Rendering the gallery a series of staged photo stills, painted accents, and set design, Pardo delves into notions of representation, collectivity, and reality, utilizing wry humor and subtle nuance to instigate curiosity.</p>
<p>Pardo deploys photography, characteristically a medium of authenticity and documentation (however controversially), as a lens to deconstruct outward appearance. At close ex<span class="text_exposed_show">amination, her balanced compositions, sculptural lighting, and deliberate cropping divulge that there’s more than meets the eye, with a nod to the genre’s ultimate manipulability. Displacing the notion of a photograph’s “decisive moment,” Pardo’s works operate as relics of orchestrated encounters and curiously arranged conglomerations, proliferating with myriad readings. Poised as such, each fragmented body, absurdly poetic skyscape, or shadowy still life takes on an expressionist or even vaguely narrative quality, as instruments for philosophical inquiry and catalysts of affect.</span></p>
<p>Pardo’s practice has characteristically manipulated scale and context to challenge perception, producing tableaux that fuse recognizable elements with magical realism. Her process involves constructing sculptural maquettes and staged settings as scenes for the camera to capture, imbuing her prop-like objects with a captivating subjectivity and her portraits with an alluring obscurity—each its own form of rebellion. Once photographed, each mise en scène converts to two-dimensional scale, flattened and decontextualized from its original environment. In recent years Pardo’s photography has expanded from self-contained yet boundary-breaking content to employ shape-shifting frames that physically alter boundaries; and with Slow Clap surpasses even the frame to reach an apex of nonconformity that achieves a queering of space.</p>
<p>Upon entering, the eponymously named “Slow Clap” (2017) portrays two hands with their palms facing each other, emblazoned with various tattoos and band-aids. A reference to Albrecht Dührer’s “Praying Hands” (1508), the image is strikingly identical to a still of clapping hands, whether in appreciation of its target or performed ironically. Here, Pardo’s penchant for ambiguity is keenly sensed, where the acts and intentionalities of praying and clapping are starkly juxtaposed, if only to reveal the polysemy available to symbols. In “Sunny Side Up” (2017) three idyllic palms careen over lapping waves and a setting sun, a paradisiacal image reappropriated from a credit card company’s unsolicited envelope—now superimposed with a cracked egg. As Pardo’s initial experimentation with the trope of landscapes, what seemingly lurks beneath the surface is the promise of capitalism, the aspirations of urban dwellers, or perhaps even the hint at colonization.</p>
<p>Upstairs, an expansive vinyl wall covering (“Congregation,” 2017) depicts a seated crowd from behind, whether seated in pews, attending some sort of concert, or another form of gathering. Lacking in any overt sentiment, upon scrutiny a subtle repetition of figures emerges, an oddity that serves as its own ‘tell.’ While representative of collective experience, the image remains evasive to allow viewers open interpretation, ranging from collective euphoria to collective dismay. As the audience to an unbeknownst occasion, the work is wittingly adjacent to a peach-hued living room set complete with painted walls and flooring, bench seating, and pedestals (“Fresh Salmon,” 2017.) Inviting interaction from viewers, the work performs its neighbor’s virtual antithesis as a space awaiting its audience. Throughout the exhibition, the sound of a slow clap emits at infrequent intervals, activating the space every so often, its connotation shifting with its audience.</p>
<p>Pardo strips symbolism deeply embedded within the structures of church and state, hinting at the disenchantment with institutions palpable in today’s political arena. As a discerning investigation of semiotics at large, “Slow Clap” cheekily unravels facets of communication, interpretation, and meaning-making that otherwise register subconsciously in our day-to-day, armoring and empowering her viewers through unexpected vantage points.</p>
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<p>Marcela Pardo Ariza (b. Bogotá, Colombia) has exhibited at Alter Space, The Battery, R/SF projects, Zoo Labs (guest curated by Et al.), Bass & Reiner, Guerrero Gallery, Root Division (San Francisco, CA), and Glasshouse (Brooklyn, NY). She was Curatorial Assistant at the Clocktower Gallery (Manhattan, NY), and Co-Founder/Director of NoRoof Gallery, (San Francisco, CA). Pardo has curated shows at Cranium Corporation, R/SF projects (San Francisco, CA), and CTRL+SHFT (Oakland, CA).</p>
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<p>This October 13th, YCC is proud to feature a grouping that ranges from photography to ceramics to painting from a dynamic cohort of emerging and mid-career artists. Rotating 4 times per year, the program surveys the field of contemporary art in the Bay Area, giving prospective buyers access to a hig…hly selective body of work.</p>
<p>Each iteration begins with a private, members-only educational component, oftentimes a roundtable panel with collectors, dealers, or advisors. The evening culminates in a reception open to the public, with many of the artists in attendance.</p>
<p>For information on membership, please email inquiries@sfyoungcollector sclub.com</p>
<p>100% womynfolk edition 💅</p>
<p>VERY PROUD TO EXHIBIT…<br />
✨Sofía Córdova.<br />
💥Johanna Friedman.<br />
🌟Sonja Gerdes.<br />
🔥Rebekah Goldstein.<br />
☀️Jaimie Healy.<br />
💥Dana Hemenway.<br />
⚡️Rhonda Holberton.<br />
💥Lauren McKeon.<br />
✨Cait Molloy.<br />
💫Elizabeth Russell.<br />
🔥Taravat Talepasand.</p>
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<p>It has come to our attention that many of us are haunted I by our guts. The stomach is a no man’s land of emotions, experiences, and other indigestible matter. HARD 2 SWALLOW is a new take on immersive performance: for one night only, find yourself swallowed whole. A journey down the digestive tract. Let’s see what you’re really made of.</p>
<p>Dress code: good enough to eat.</p>
<p>A pre-Halloween evening of immersive performance presented by HUSH-HUSH and R/SF projects.</p>
<p>Performances by Stevie Southard, Brittany St. John Newell, Silk Worm, Faluda Islam, Gabriel Christian, Juancy Matos, and Jjuliia Lc (Waxy Tomb) 🙂<br />
To unlock hidden tix for our facebook friends use code SWALLOWMEUP (only 20 available)<br />
About MASQ:<br />
R/SF invites you into a hidden underground of performance art, dance, installation, and sound—where spontaneous encounters and interactive landscapes unfold. Immerse yourself in a contemporary masquerade where art objects contain clues and invite sensorial play.</p>
<p>Put on a mask, dance with a stranger, and step into a role of bold self-experimentation. Abandon your cell phone and the world of Tinder to seek something experiential and sublime—Theatricalize your Saturday night.</p>
<p>Witness R/SF transform into MASQ—a gallery in drag for the night. We invite audience members to take part in this ephemeral fantasy: a living production featuring mystical non-linear narratives and a rotating cast that invites repeat exploration. At the nexus of improvisational movement, theatre, and installation art, MASQ immerses the viewer in the possibility of art as it unfolds in real time.</p>
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<div id="id_5a064088844408645386149" class="text_exposed_root text_exposed"><strong>Shamiram’s Delight</strong><br />
<strong> Maryam Yousif </strong><br />
<strong> 11 November – 10 December</strong></p>
<p><strong>Opening Reception 11 November, 7-10 PM</strong></p>
<p>R/SF projects is pleased to present “Shamiram’s Delight,” a solo show of new work by Iraqi-Canadian-American artist Maryam Yousif. Comprised of ceramics ranging from intimate miniatures to larger-than-life monuments, fibrous macramé hangings, and painted canvases, Yousif weaves an impassioned tale of matriarchal prowess that bridges upon historical revisionism.<span class="text_exposed_hide">…</span><span class="text_exposed_show"></p>
<p>Among the countless tales of Assyrian warriors, there’s one female heroine whose expansive mythology spans myriad middle eastern cultures and centuries. Dating to the 9th century BCE, the legendary Shamiram is said to have seduced the King, passionately requested a single day as Queen, and whilst in power ordered the King’s assassination—continuing her reign by famously sentencing rapists to their death. The tale factors prominently in Yousif’s childhood, most notably depicted in a painting done by the artist’s mother where Shamiram rides atop horse-driven carriage. Through Shamiram’s Delight, Yousif breathes new life into the many-layered myth, seemingly embodying the persona of Shamiram herself and further carrying the feminist torch.</p>
<p>Easily the exhibition’s main focal point, majestic arch-like “Gate of Mishtar” (2017) towers over seven feet high and stretches a magnanimous eight feet wide. Immediately greeting the viewer from an angled stance, the work features panoramic imagery that begs circumnavigation. Adorned with mirror-image sculptures to produce a perfectly parallel composition, the work boasts mischievously grinning horse heads, hookah spires, and female busts atop ziggurat-like pillars. Fashioning the top arch formation, two crisscrossed spears are seemingly wielded by blue genie hands (an allegedly lucky color), and draped between each column is a painted rendition of Shamiram—recreating the artist’s mother’s original interpretation. As a whole, the piece recalls ancient scrolls, regal fortresses, and the land of papyrus, yet its particular sense of antiquity possesses an unmistakable contemporaneity. Among its eccentricities, a propped ceramic wheel exhibits a smiley face flower as reminiscent of 1960s pop culture as it is the likes of Takashi Murakami; parallels drawn to the wands and cups of tarot decks are similarly apropos, whose divinatory use rhymes with Yousif’s keen sensibility for the occult.</p>
<p>Where Yousif’s color palette is playful and vibrant, it is also inclusive of raw beige tones, as in the use of undyed cotton twine, cement, and occasional unglazed ceramic—caught somewhere betwixt Eastern and Western cultures. Her forms are crudely sculpted with a certain naïveté or scrawled in a gestural yet painterly manner, exercising a prerogative to be goofy in a world learning to take women artists seriously. Upstairs, a trio of ceiling-mounted macramé hangings envelop not potted plants but individually nestled art objects. Once an entirely domestic (and women-performed) craft used to suspend greenery, here the artist has carved plant-like caricatures into clay. Like the scrolls and vases, these objects find themselves stripped of their original utility and rendered useless, now elevated to the realm of art and aesthetics. The artist’s success is two-fold: while she reappropriates women’s work, she also feminizes artmaking.</p>
<p>“Shamiram’s Delight” possesses an anecdotal element that calls to myth, oral legends, and origin stories. The show both pays homage to the heroic female archetype at large, the artist’s own mother, the artist-as-warrior and warrior-as-artist, while also functioning as a performative embodiment of Shamiram herself—seemingly posing the question, what would this woman have produced as an artist, and what would the history books detail if more women had been granted the opportunity? Where Yousif’s practice at times bridges upon a prop-like or set-like feel, a stage is set for the artist to enact her own powerful revisionist history—tipping the balance retroactively, and thrusting one new narrative into the limelight.</p>
<p>Maryam Yousif (b. Baghdad, Iraq) moved to Canada as a child and immigrated to California in 2008. She has exhibited at CTRL SHFT collective (Oakland, CA); Guerrero Gallery (San Francisco, CA); and SUN RAY Gallery (Berkeley, CA). She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the San Francisco Arts Institute. Yousif lives and works in Oakland.</p>
<p>About R/SF projects:<br />
R/SF projects is a curatorial project space for cutting-edge contemporary work and experimental performance. The gallery endeavors to champion true risk-taking among today’s cultural agitators, and to redefine the way viewers interact with contemporary art. In tandem with its robust schedule of solo and group shows, R/SF hosts seasonal SF Young Collectors Club salons, outdoor exhibitions under its EN PLEIN AIR initiative, and a diverse range of pop-ups featuring guest curators and outside collaborators, fixtures that consistently offer new levels of critical engagement with the works on view.</span></div>
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